The first volume of Fletcher Hanks stories, I Shall Destroy AllCivilizedPlanets! (now in its fourth printing) was an Eisner Award-winningsmash hit and a staple on "Best of the Year" lists. Edited bycartoonist Paul Karasik, this second volume, You Shall Die By Your Own EvilCreation, collects all of the rest of Hanks comic book work. The thirty-onetales in this book, when combined with the first volume, will comprise TheComplete Fletcher Hanks! Fletcher Hanks was the first great comic book auteur:that is, he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered all of his own stories, many ofwhich feature the cold space wizard superhero Stardust or the jungle protectressFantomah. Today's mature readers - both comics fans and non-comics fans wholearned about the book from magazines such as The Believer and otherjournals - are stunned by these comics' pop surrealism and outright violentmayhem.